Two quantities a and b are said to be in the golden ratio φ if:
One method for finding the value of φ is to start with the left fraction. Through simplifying the fraction and substituting in b/a = 1/φ,
it is shown that,
Multiplying by φ gives
which can be rearranged to
Using the quadratic formula gives the only positive solution as,
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